DR. Barry Sorrell's 1947 CJ2A

Dr. Sorrells dropped this off one
day and OH MY! This truck was a disaster. Years of neglect had taken
their toll on the tub and under supports. It had been patched with a 1/4''
thick piece of scrap metal on the rear deck.

I think I have a bunch of pics
stuck on a CD so when I get them off and uploaded I ll run them up here.
In the meantime, enjoy the few I have.

Nasty rot has taken over. We
cut out all of the pan to the wells and then installed 2x1 tubing as the
supports and had a bead rolled piece fabbed up for the decking. Since we
were eventually going to line the interior we used some pre painted scrap metal
for patching the front floor. We tried to form all the lips to aid in spot
welding as we put in each piece. The center hump is a formed piece that we
cut, folded and seam welded together. The toolbox had to go on top of
that.

We ground out about 3/4" thick
bondo on both sides of the truck. The rear qtr panel was shoddily repaired
earlier with slapped on bondo so we took it all out, welded in patch pieces and
use kitty hair as the first coat of filler to give the whole thing strength.

I epoxy primed the whole jeep, then
DA'd it, then grey primed it, wetsanded that, whiter sealer'd the truck and
finally applied the FJ Cruiser Yellow (Barry saw it on another truck I working
on at the time, plus his wife loved it too).

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We shot the interior with liner,
had Acey's do the seats for us, added a rollbar, powdercoated everything,
used stainless fasteners and I redid the wiring of the whole truck from front to
rear. All in all the truck stands tall now.....Pretty soon we'll be doing
some driveline worked as its all original and is developing some slack.